Project 4 – 20th century type Research Progress – Proposal Heading Title Palatino Subheading Touch of Humanistic Classics Decade: 1950s Type designer: Hermann Zapf Typeface: Palatino Typographic technology: Phototypesetting Drawing upon the findings, my information panel will contain three related segments, however the Typographic technology aspect will be the feature. Typographic technology – Phototypesetting –Continue reading “Typography – Week 8”
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Typography – Week 7
Project 3 – Body and Soul Based on week 6 brief and suggested process, I read through the brief and suggested process would be the fresh good start. But where to begin? I find, that is, central to the process is to read the copy The Language of Letters (Body) Understanding the text intent is vital,Continue reading “Typography – Week 7”
Typography – Week 6
Project 3 – Body and Soul Readings & Activity The Science of Typography Ultimately, in layout design, typographical variables impact the way, people, respond to written words on a page or screen. The font style, point size, line length and spacing, are effectively rule the domain of layout design and, comprise how the message isContinue reading “Typography – Week 6”
Typography – Week 6
Project 3 – Body and soul (Form and personality) Brief This project requires me to typeset and recreate a page of copy that faithfully reflects an existing page layout. Instructions Using the copy provided (body), The Language of Letters, I am required to typeset and recreate a page that faithfully reflects an existing page layoutContinue reading “Typography – Week 6”
Typography – Week 5
Project 2 – Quote me – Concept & Inspiration Conceptual Thinking My concept is to create a modern, simple and new typographical expression of Robert Bringhurst’s words, by breaking off with tradition of the layout. Inspired by the tenets of the Bauhaus, I decided to communicate my visual through the absolute clarity of elements, withContinue reading “Typography – Week 5”
Typography – Week 4
Project 1 – The Architect of the Letterform At this stage, the letterform need to be architect and sculpture. Doing so, I need to analyse the original letterform of the Art Deco, and using basic shapes to rebuild my letterform to give it an architectural visual appearance. Experimenting the letterform help me understand how toContinue reading “Typography – Week 4”
Typography – Week 3
Project 1 – Concept Development During this week, I decided to take the course of my thinking further to explore the meaning that links my charcoal drawing, the Flamenco Dancing and the Mature letterform-Typface concept. I took further research by watching Flamenco Dancing documentary, analysing how dancers voice their movements, and how that revealed inContinue reading “Typography – Week 3”
Typography – Week 2
Project 1: Conceptual Thinking Technically, dictionary is the main source of word definition, by which adjectives may reveal some inspiring ideas, and provide meanings that can be drawn from. What does it mean ‘word definition’? Is it true that dictionaries are the only reference source to definitions? The reason why, I am asking these questionsContinue reading “Typography – Week 2”
Typography – Week 1
Hello Everyone My first post for week 1 activity – Introduction to Typography of the Typography unit. Activity: You’re quite the type! The purpose of this activity is to get us thinking about and working with type. It also investigates different approaches to express typographic personality, with understanding the basic typography terminologies, such asContinue reading “Typography – Week 1”
Creative and Conceptual
The Role Of the Graphic Designer My role and expertise include collecting and organizing and analyzing the information about the project to communicate these ideas, organize communicate, planning the activities and getting the outcome of the final task and evaluating the project. Read more on that topic at the Graphic Design page